Mutagenicity of Man-made Lake Water From Wujiang River, Jinhua / 环境与健康杂志

Objective To study the mutagenicity of water of man-made lake from Wujiang River in Jinhua. Methods The mutagenicities of water samples collected from 7 representative sampling points in man-made lake in Wujiang River were detected with micronucleus test in vicia faba root tip cells in Oct. 2000 and Oct. 2001 in Jinhua, Zhejiang. Results All water samples showed significantly higher frequencies of micronucleus with a range of 8.06‰～27.79‰ compared with 5.04‰ of negative control (P